BERLIN — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Friday designated the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, as an “extremist endeavor,” a move that lowers hurdles for the spy agency in ...

In Germany, government has the power to ban extremist political parties. Should it use that power to outlaw the ...

The reason for stiffing the AfD on real estate is the usual threat of fascism. The SPD has nicknamed its large hall Otto Weis ...

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has officially designated the country's main opposition party a right-wing extremist ...

A regional branch of German domestic intelligence in the eastern state of Brandenburg has suspended its designation of the ...

Germany is to suspend family reunification rights for asylum seekers, its government has announced. The policy, in place since 2018, has allowed 1,000 people a month to follow their relatives into the ...

Addressing the Bundestag, incoming Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt concentrated on two points: closing the borders to ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war on woke in the Pentagon is serving as a model for Germany’s far right.

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

Two narratives presenting opposing takes on the classification of Alternative for Germany (AfD) as an extremist far-right ...